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The Yeast Connection Handbook

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This book is one of the most comprehensive books on intestinal yeast and its trauma I have seen to date. Just by taking some of the recommendations: acidophilus, a multi-vitamin, and severely reducing the sugar, yeast and pasta in my diet has made an incredible difference in my symptoms and the way I feel in the past month. I recommend this to anyone with intestinal yeast because the improvement, though not 100% is very drastic! I am feeling better every day!

Dr. Crook's book saved my life. Before his program I suffered from blurred vision, headaches, weight gain, low energy, dizzy spells, depression and a multitude of other ailments. Since January I have lost 30 pounds, have clear thinking, improved vision, a positive outlook on life, and boundless energy. I am ordering two more copies of this book; one for my daughter and one for my best friend Carole who is in the hospital. The book is an easy read, makes a lot of sense, easy to follow and the recipes are tasty and filling. My husband also is on the program with me. He no longer suffers from heartburn and his cholesterol has dropped over 150 points. This works and we are blessed to have Dr, Crook researching and continuing to assist others. Thank you.

I was disappointed after I read the book. It is loaded with explanations on what candida intolerance is and describe in details the symptoms suffered, but there was nothing there that I did not already know by surfing the internet. I found the part on changing the diet very good. My main reason for buying the book was that I thought there would be more on alternative treatment... Yes, the book does say that you should try the probiotic, caprylic acid, echinacea, Co10Q, etc, but does not offer any type of indication as to what standardized extract should be used, what to look for in a specific product, or how much to take and when, to maximize their effectiveness. Now it's back to the internet to find out...

Read Dr. Crook's book, if you have taken repeated doses of antibiotics, suffer from chronic yeast infections, or have any of the new modern diseases, CFS, FMS, even ADD. Candida effects both men and women. You can give Dr. Crook's book to your physician. Tell your physician that you want to get tested for yeast imbalance, and then hand him or her the "The Yeast Connection Handbook". Appendix A, "A Special Message To The Physician", has information directed toward skeptical doctors.

My physician knew about candida problems and treatment. She prescribed a yeast-sensitivity panel for me (available from Great Smokies Diagnostic Laboratory - see pages 200-205, Lab #10 on page 205), so my gut candida could be killed with the right medications. Retake a yeast-sensitivity panel every so often. You may have several strains of yeast that develop in your gut, those that grow will be ones that have a pre-existing or newly-developed immunity to your anti-candida medication. If you eat sugar while you take your anti-candida medication, immune candida may thrive in your gut. If that happens, you will need to test again and cycle through another round of anti-candida treatment.

In Chapter 9 of "The Yeast Connection Handbook", Dr. Crook offers his recommendations for dietary and lifestyle changes to include along with your anti-candida medical treatment. Follow his recommendations. You may also read the book "Yeast Connection Success Stories", to grasp what people have done to keep their candida under control after their medical treatment was over. You will understand how important lifestyle changes are to staying symptom-free.

"The Yeast Connection Handbook" contains so much information: instructions to follow, doctor's statements, case studies, lab names, medication names, and extended references. Reading a few paragraphs in the right chapter could change your life. Browse the table of contents and index. Take careful notes. This book has valuable information on every page.

Knowledge of yeast-related diseases truly is new information for the twenty-first century. Dr. Crook shines the light of his knowledge on the subject. His book "The Yeast Connection Handbook" brings valuable information to you and to the mainstream medical community.

Dr. Crook's "The Yeast Connection Handbook" is an easy to read, self-help guide to understanding and treating the problem of yeast disorders. This book I found much more "user friendly" than the original version "the Yeast Connection" because of how it is layed out: content, font-type, chapters, etc.

Dr. Crook gives hundreds of references and case studies that can assist the patient when talking with their own physician. This was especially helpful for me and my husband when dealing with an HMO doctor that had little knowledge of the subject or its treatment.

This is a valuable book for ANYONE (man, woman and child) that has had various ailments or recurring infections and wants to get healthy!

Here's to understanding "the yeast connection" and a better life!

The beginning of the book was good, but the information kept getting repeated over and over again and sometimes you would find the exact same paragraph being repeated later in the book. I didn't really learn anything that I hadn't already researched on various websites on the internet.

I was surprized to find that The Yeast Connection left me feeling disappointed.The lay out of the material is less than "handy" and the overall flow of the information that could be helpful to someone setting up a cleansing program is irratically placed through out the book. I also purchased the Yeast Connection Cookbook and was horrified to find the author supplying alternative meat sources such as hippopotamus,lion and giraffe. What's up with that? Have they lost their minds?

This is the best of the approximately 6 books I have purchased on the subject. In fact, none of the others even touch this book. Crook is a man of science. He also will tell you what to do if you don't want to wade through why you should do what he says. For example, he has a comprehensive vitamin, mineral and supplement recommendation that includes over 20 items and he has the guts to say take them all and in what quantitites. He tells you what drugs to take. (Much better than the Mr. Natural approaches of other books that do'nt work.) I combined the diet, supplements, drugs, other actions and think I eradicated a lot of the problem. I also combined what Crook recommended with The Zone, by Barry Sears and lost 23 pounds pretty quickly. This book, however, is sounder and better researched than The Zone.

This book is a must for all interested on bettering there health!! It is very comprehensive and goes into much detail on dealing with how yeast effects the body, causes illness and gives clear diet and lifestyle changes that can help. This book is great!!

One of the jobs of an editor is to determine whether the content of the material matches the title. "The Yeast Connection Handbook: This easy-to-follow guide brings readers the latest information about yeast-related disorders and how to overcome them." Of that title and subtitle, only four of the 14 chapters are related to the subject matter. The rest of the material branches off into common knowledge subjects like diet, nutrition, exercise, drug-related illnesses and homespun advice about how to feel better, like avoiding chemicals, smoke, hazardous materials, and so forth. In this case, the author has acceptable material, but is not related at all to the title. In this case, in order to make this book acceptable, the title would have to be changed to something like, "Dr. Crook's Advice for Better Living," or perhaps "Everyday knowledge and Your Health" or some similar phrase. So if we extracted the relevant knowledge of yeast infections and yeast-related illnesses, we would have a forty page booklet instead of a 274-page book filled with information that has been repeated tens of thousands of times in tens of thousands of other books, materials, doctor's office literature and encyclopedias. We don't need to see what the essential vitamins are and what they do,for instance, or the health benefits of exercise, because such knowledge can be found on the Internet--even when this book was printed in 1999, there was already total saturation regarding common diet, nutrition and proper health guideline knowledge.

On page 93, there is a homespun comic of pollutants as they are represented in a simple diagram. One of the callouts has "contactants" as a source of modern ailments; a substance that can cause an allergic reaction. "Contactant" is a word so rarely used in the layperson community that "allergen" would have been better. This all gets back to the point: what does this have to do with yeast infections? Yeast anything?

So while "The Yeast Connection Handbook" is adequately written, the content is mostly filler. As a writer and editor myself, I would have redlined the whole project as unpublishable, because the entire premise of the book assumes the reader was in a time capsule or living in a cave for the previous fifty years. Dr. Crook needs to extract only the relevant information, add new source material and new information as relating to his title, and then compose a revised first edition. As it is, the information is too common to sell as a marketable publication. My goal is not to infuriate the author as much as it is constructively criticising the content and how it is related to the title. The title is everything. Otherwise, the title has to be renamed to match the contents. If not, it reduces the credibility of the author. So it must be that the publisher is more of a vanity press, and would accept almost any type of manuscript, and did not catch this woefully inexcusable oversight. A major publisher would have caught it right away.